All posts by Chuck Fager

Climate Focus: Can Hi-Tech Save The Potato? (Is That A Real Question?? Yes.)

The Guardian — 5 November 2022 Our unequal earth Star Trek for potatoes: can a hi-tech farm save french fries from the climate crisis? Researchers flock to New Brunswick, Canada, to test both cutting-edge and bygone methods of spud cultivation to meet a challenging future by Dominic Rushe in Florenceville, Canada, with photographs by Adetona … Continue reading Climate Focus: Can Hi-Tech Save The Potato? (Is That A Real Question?? Yes.) →

Dyer-Lula: One Rare Sign of Hope for the Climate

Dyer: Brazil’s change of presidents best news for climate change conference This year’s United Nation’s Climate Change Conference (COP27) opens in Cairo Sunday and continues for two weeks, but all that hot air is less important than the single fact that Luiz Inácio (Lula) da Silva narrowly won the Brazilian presidency last Sunday. By Gwynne … Continue reading Dyer-Lula: One Rare Sign of Hope for the Climate →

Aftermath — Part 2: A Constant Struggle

Aftermath — Part 2 Amelia Boynton was my landlady in Selma, Alabama. She was also a prominent local civil fights activist, one of the handful of Black Selmians who had managed to badger her way onto the voting rolls despite segregation. When she was knocked out cold on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge during the “Bloody … Continue reading Aftermath — Part 2: A Constant Struggle →

Wendy, The Fair Daredevil

A long time ago, before we crossed paths, the Fair Wendy rode a motorcycle from Ohio to Pittsburgh and back, then later to Chicago. She loved the independence, the adventure, and the wind. She still has the motorcycle, under a tarp behind the house. Fortunately (from my perspective) it’s too rusted to be cranked up.

Amish & The Vote: Their buggies are cute; their clothes & dialect are quaint; their food is good (& fattening). Their politics? Well . . .

New York Times – Opinion: Guest Essay Doug Mastriano and the Potential of Amish Voters in Pennsylvania By Bonnie Kristian — Nov. 4, 2022 Ms. Kristian is a journalist and a fellow at Defense Priorities, a foreign policy think tank. Former President Donald Trump lost Pennsylvania in 2020 by just around 80,000 votes out of … Continue reading Amish & The Vote: Their buggies are cute; their clothes & dialect are quaint; their food is good (& fattening). Their politics? Well . . . →